yard work

noun

: the work of maintaining or cultivating the yard or lawn of a home

I'd hate to get embroiled in mowing and have it start pouring. … There is other yard work I could do that wouldn't take so long. … I could go out and trim around the shrubs and trees.

—Bob Grady

Katie Pagan, the senior class sponsor, said the students partnered with a local church to receive a list of residents who needed assistance with yard work. "They did leaf raking on Election Day," Pagan said.

—Karah Wilson

My parents gave me a typical allowance for school clothes, which I supplemented with mowing lawns and yard work …

—Chris Goddard

Examples of yard work in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

One young man staying with his parents at Mic Mac that summer seemed eager to help, too: a 17-year-old always offering to help others with their yard work or loose pets. —ABC News, 21 July 2025

Since her release from the Bristol County House of Corrections in January 2020, Carter has only been spotted once outside of her Plainville home — doing yard work in April 2022, according to photos obtained by the New York Post. —Lynsey Eidell, People.com, 12 July 2025

Most recently, Montgomery Troop 12 put in a full day doing yard work Saturday at the Batavia home of Marine veteran Kyle Moser, who lost both his legs above the knee in 2011 during a combat mission in Afghanistan. —Denise Crosby, Chicago Tribune, 3 July 2025

Vigorous-intensity activity included running, swimming laps, heavy yard work, singles tennis and jumping rope. —American Heart Association News, Boston Herald, 1 June 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1865, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for yard work

• artwork
• beadwork
• berserk
• breastwork
• brickwork
• brushwork
• casework
• classwork
• clockwork
• coursework
• ductwork
• earthwork